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#ForFreedom
intends to become the people’s voice supporting all human rights defenders
currently in detention.

Obtaining the release of arbitrarily detained human
rights defenders is a priority for FIDH and its 178 member organisations. The
objectives of the #ForFreedom campaign are to inform and digitally mobilise
public opinion to the situation of human rights defenders in prison.

“If we speak out, they walk out” said Karim
Lahidji, the FIDH President quoting the campaign’s slogan, “Obtaining the
release of arbitrarily detained defenders is not wishful thinking. Our
mobilization brings freedom to a good number of them every year”.

"My husband manages to hang on in his prison
cell because he knows his fight lives on within others. He also knows that
thousands of others have been working tirelessly for the last two years to get
him released. Every little bit of information that gets through to him makes
him feel closer to the outside world, closer to the free world. Silence, which
would mean giving up, or resignation, would be for him the worst of sentences," testified
Sumaya Rajab, the wife of Nabeel Rajab, a human rights defender jailed in
Bahrain since 2012.

What is a “human rights defender”? A “human rights
defender” is any person or group of persons who, on behalf of individuals or
groups, acts, in a peaceful manner, to promote or protect human rights, as
defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

FIDH is an international human rights NGO federating 178 organizations from close to 120 countries. Since 1922, FIDH has been defending all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.